Vicious Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...

Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...

Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...

I've had enough of the vicious, spiteful nonsense oozing from the oily lips of the UK's racing handbag John McCririck, the bloke who dresses up like a clown and spits out venom and hatred against A...

RACING Queensland officials have taken aim at a vicious rumour campaign levelled at leading trainer Tony Gollan after it was found yesterday he had not infringed any rules of racing, reports the Co...

Though last week I trumpeted the virtues of knowing when to draw the line on a day's punting, that notion is a far more difficult beast when applied to a horse's overall campaign. How often do you ...

The owners of talented colt State Of Wealth are daring to dream of the Group One Caulfield Guineas in October following the three-year-old's impressive victory at Eagle Farm.State Of Wealth made up...

Surprise, surprise...A State Govt commissione report says there should be a merger of the AJC and STC. The outcome hardly comes as a shock to anyone. As soon as the Minister called for the report, ...

In this third article, I want to address the issue of what punters expect from their betting. Do we want too much, not enough? Are we reasonable or unreasonable in our expectations? Now some of y...